Surgery: Waiting Lists

(asked on 15th July 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent estimate he has made of the number of NHS patients awaiting operations that have been delayed as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
This question was answered on 20th July 2021

No recent estimate has been made. The collection of data on cancelled operations has been paused in order to release capacity across the National Health Service to support the pandemic response.

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